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Morning Prayer for January 2nd 2023
Good morning friends. We invite you to join Jason O’Reilly, of the Kairos Community Trust, for morning prayer today. Today’s reading is from the Gospel of John, as recounts the time when John the Baptist was questioned by the Jewish leaders about who he was. John declared boldly and with humility that he was not...

Morning Prayer: January 1st 2023, Feast of Mary the Mother of God
Good morning friends. We invite you to join Fr Oliver Barry OMI, Province Leader of the Oblates of England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the district of Denmark, for our morning prayer today. Today is the 1st of January, the feast of Mary, the mother of God, Father Chicho, the new Superior General of the Oblates...

Morning Prayer for New Year’s Eve, December 31st
Good morning friends. We invite you to join Sr Lumay Thomas Oblate Parish of Darndale-Belcamp, for our morning prayer today. John is a witness to the light. We are children of God who are promised new life by Jesus, who revealed the father’s love to us. The invitation is to welcome him in a world...

Morning Prayer for the Feast of the Holy Family, December 30th
Good morning friends. We invite you to join Br Simon and Br Martin of the Presentation Brothers once again for our morning prayer today. There’s a lot in our gospel texts today about dreams and God speaking through dreams. We must ask ourselves how God speaks to us in our lives today, and who have...

Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family December 29th #christmas
Good morning friends. We invite you to join Br Simon and Br Martin of the Presentation Brothers, for our morning prayer today. In the wonderful account of the presentation of the Lord in Luke’s Gospel reading from today’s mass, we find a great challenge for ourselves to do. How do we present the norms in...

Morning Prayer December 28th, Feast of the Holy Innocents
Good morning friends. We invite you to join Fr Eduardo Nunez OMI in the Oblate Parish of Darndale-Belcamp, for our morning prayer today. We often see Christmas in a very romantic way. And today’s gospel shows the other side of the coin. The first Christmas, the biblical one, was anything but pleasant and sentimental. A...

Morning Prayer December 27th, Feast of Saint John the Evangelist
Good morning friends. We invite you to join Br Barry Noel who is a member of the Presentation Brothers community, for our morning prayer today. If we try to understand Christmas outside the event of the resurrection, we shall remain in the dark! The resurrection of Jesus from the dead helps us to see more...

Morning Prayer December 26th, Feast of Saint Stephen
Good morning friends. We invite you to join Fr Marco Antonio Ortiz OMI who is based Oblate General House, Rome, for our morning prayer today. Perhaps we still have the melody of old little town of Bethlehem. We probably still have the images of our family conversing, the laughter, the joys, or perhaps even the...

Morning Prayer December 25th, Feast of the Nativity of Our Lord #Christmas
Good morning friends, and a very Happy Christmas to all from the Oblates. We invite you to join Gerard Bissett a member of the Oblate Mission with Youth for our morning prayer today. “God’s grace has been revealed and it has made salvation possible for the whole human race and taught us that we have...

Morning Prayer with the Oblates, Christmas Eve
Welcome to Morning Prayer, with Fr Terry Murray, from Kilburn, London. On this Christmas Eve, Terry focuses today’s prayer on the second part of the Benedictus, which references John the Baptist. We are all called to make a way for the Lord. In the midst of all our busyness, may we find a moment of...